Category Archives: Life & Love

The other day I was going on a walk, getting bogged down in the details of my life. The useless emotions, certain states of things, and things that I have let occupy my mind far too much of the time. I think it was realizing that I was going over and over small details that…

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Do you ever find yourself caring about something so deeply, feeling so impassioned by it that it makes you cry? Well, that’s me. In general I feel pretty deeply in about pretty much everything, but every once in a while sometimes I just feel so much I cry. They aren’t tears of happiness or sadness;…

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Sometimes it hard to not look around longingly at everyone’s else’s lives and happiness and wish that were you. The happy couple who can’t keep their hands off each other. The 25 year old who started a business that just made a million dollar profit. The glowing newlyweds on their honeymoon in Europe. The baby…

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The summer of 2004 I had a black and white cover composition notebook. At the beginning of that summer it was perfectly crisp, with thousands of daunting blank lines inside it. “Ugh,” I thought to myself in June. “Why did I sign up for College English with HOMEWORK for the summer? She is making me…

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I am a 28 year old single woman. I am a 28 year old divorced woman. This does not make me a failure. Sometimes it makes me feel like a failure. Like I got the ultimate prize (a man, a husband) and then I failed. I lost the man, the husband. Now I get the…

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